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Shattered Life

Shattered Life
When life shatters into a thousand pieces, you have three choices.
One, you can crawl into a hole and sleep away and days and nights (literally or figuratively).  Be a shell of who you once were.  Find no joy, no love, no light, and no laughter.  Be among the walking dead.  (And I'm not talking zombie flicks here, either.)  If you've ever known someone who's taken a hard hit in their life and pulled in on themselves like this – or if you've ever...

Book Spotlight: Just Dessert

In The Spotlight:  Just Dessert

Please enjoy this excerpt from Chapter One of the September 2013 release of Just Dessert.

To set the scene:  Mary's father made a terrible scene at the church picnic, causing her to take her siblings and flee.  Grady found them along the side of the road and offered to give them a ride home in his wagon.

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As Grady pulled his wagon up to the front of the house, he kept his focus on Mary and the kids. He could sense their tension. Since...

Book Spotlight: New Beginnings

In The Spotlight:  New Beginnings by Iris Blobel

 

Tagline:  To believe in new beginnings is to trust in tomorrow.

 

Genre:  Contemporary Women's Fiction (with a touch of romance and a lot of Australia!)

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Twenty-two-year-old Sophie Levesque has been guardian to eight-year-old sister Mia since their mother’s death a few years ago. Luck comes their way when they inherit a small house in Hobart. Problem is, though, they don’t know or...

Where Nobody Knows Your Name

Where Nobody Knows Your Name

 

Remember that show about a Boston bar "where everybody knows your name"?  I do.  And it's the exact opposite of everything I wanted for most of my life.

My family moved a lot during my growing up years.  By the time I finished the eighth grade, I had attended ten, maybe eleven schools.  I don't remember the exact number.  All of that moving made me a little… shall we say… socially awkward.  (Okay, okay.  So...

Book Spotlight: Conflicted Jewel

In The Spotlight:  Conflicted Jewel by Lynn Spangler

 

Tagline:  Sometimes trusting your heart is harder than diamonds...

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Years separated Sage and Zander. Will their reunion rekindle feelings they’ve long since kept to themselves?

Sage Whitley’s life as owner and jewelry designer for Whitley’s Jewelers was mundane and comfortable until the return of Zander Havilland. Secretly, Sage has had feelings for the handsome gemstone bu...

Book Spotlight: Buried Truth

In The Spotlight:  Buried Truth by Brenda Maxfield

 

Tagline:  Can she find the courage to forgive herself?

Genre:  Young Adult Contemporary

Back Cover:  Nearly a decade has passed, but Mags can’t forget what she did. Now at seventeen years old, the shame continues to haunt her, coloring her world. She throws herself into every worthwhile project available, struggling for redemption.

Andrew can have any girl he wants — and he wants them all. He revels in h...

New Release: Just Dessert

Just Dessert

by Heather Gray

Dessert…the perfect remedy when nothing in life is going right.

What do you do when you are the sole protector of four children, your brothers and sisters?  When each day is haunted by disappointment, disillusionment and desperation?  When you believe that everyone who ever loved you, including God, has abandoned you?

You bake a pie, of course.

What do you do when you find a woman whose heart is consumed by fear?  Who does not know how to tr...

Book Spotlight - Waiting Fate

In The Spotlight:  Waiting Fate by W.B. Kinnette

Tagline:  Hope waits just beyond the shadows.

Genre:  Romance (clean)

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Sometimes Fate hides in plain sight while you stumble through darkness.

Ivy escapes from an abusive husband, finding peace with her daughter in her childhood home. She’s determined to keep her past a secret to protect those she loves.

Archer has been in love with the same girl since seventh grade. When Ivy comes back into his life—bruised,...

Be Content

Be Content

 

We've all heard that before, right?

Have you ever asked yourself, "How could that possibly apply to the situation I'm in right now?"

I suppose there's some confusion about what it means to be content.  Does content mean happy?  No.  So what, then, does it mean?

A lot of dictionaries equate contentment to satisfaction, but I can't quite go there yet.  I might have an oddball perception of the word satisfaction, though.  I admit that.  I thi...

Apology Flag

I first posted this back in May, but it has become one of the most highly viewed pages on my website and blog.  Because of that, I decided to give it a fresh splash of color and "re-release" it…like a book with a shiny new cover.  Enjoy!

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I recently read a book about two people who, thanks to some spiked punch, found themselves in an awkward predicament that began a chain of events beyond their control.  Add to that some hysterically funny scenes and the exquisit...